Privacy Policy

Information you provide directly

If you use the submission form, we collect your name, email, and whatever else you fill in — website/LinkedIn, industry, location, description, optional press link, and any feedback you leave. This is used to review your submission, follow up with you directly, and (if it's added) list your company. We don't sell this information or share it with third parties for marketing.

Information about companies and people we publish

The core of this site is a directory built from public sources: SEC Form D filings, Y Combinator batch data, and startup news coverage (see About for the full breakdown). This includes company names, funding amounts, and — where a source discloses it — the names and public LinkedIn profile URLs of company executives.

This is professional information that was already public before it appeared here, similar to what you'd find on Crunchbase or a company's own LinkedIn page. If you're listed here and want your name or a link removed, email elbertai2025@gmail.com and we'll take it down — no need to justify the request.

Site analytics

Three tools count aggregate traffic — which pages get visited, roughly how many people, where from. Vercel Analytics and Ahrefs Web Analytics are cookieless: neither sets an identifier on your device or builds a visitor profile, so they run without asking. Google Analytics runs only if you accept analytics cookies in the notice shown on your first visit; declining keeps it off, and the choice is remembered in your browser.

None of these can identify you personally, and we don't enable advertising features or user-level identifiers in Google Analytics.

Advertising and cookies

This site shows ads served by Google AdSense. Google, as a third-party vendor, uses cookies (including the DoubleClick cookie) to serve ads based on your prior visits to this site and other sites; other ad networks Google works with may do the same under their own policies. Where the law requires consent — the EEA, the UK, and Switzerland — Google's own consent message asks before any advertising cookie is set.

You can opt out of personalised advertising at Google Ads Settings, and out of many other vendors' advertising cookies at aboutads.info/choices or youronlinechoices.eu. How Google uses data from sites that use its services: policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites. The site itself sets no cookies to function; you can clear or block cookies in your browser and everything still works.

AI-assisted content

Some of the writing on this site — company descriptions, glossary definitions, the founder watchlist — is AI-assisted, built from the same public source data described above. No personal data you submit through the form is fed into an AI tool as training data or shared with an AI provider beyond what's needed to help draft that kind of editorial content.

Where data is stored

Everything is stored in Supabase (our database provider) and served via Vercel (our hosting provider). Both are standard infrastructure vendors, not third parties we share your data with for their own purposes.

Your rights

Whether you submitted information yourself or you're a person/company listed from a public source, you can ask us to correct or remove it at any time — email elbertai2025@gmail.com or use the submission form to flag it. We review these by hand and act on them directly, since it's just one person running this.

If you're in the EEA, UK, or Switzerland, that includes the rights to access, correct, delete, or restrict processing of your data and to withdraw consent (the cookie notice and the ad-choice links above). If you're a California resident, you can ask what we hold and have it deleted; we don't sell personal information, and opting out of personalised ads is the "do not share" choice for advertising cookies. We won't treat you differently for asking. The site is written for adults and isn't directed at children under 13; we don't knowingly collect anything from them.

Changes to this policy

If this changes in a meaningful way, we'll update the date at the top of this page. Questions about any of this: elbertai2025@gmail.com.